This capacity study on the workforce needs for Australia’s Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector provides critical evidence, insights, and recommendations as appropriate to support current and future workforce planning, including a detailed understanding of the current state and future needs of the sector’s workforce, with a focus on attraction and retention. The study...

This Employment Action Plan sets out a program of actions for government agencies to support more New Zealanders into work and give them greater opportunities to realise their potential. It lays out the Government’s vision to support people to gain and retain employment, and the steps needed to achieve this.

This paper provides the key findings from the 2023 aged care provider workforce survey which provides information on the size, composition and characteristics of the aged care workforce in residential aged care and in-home care settings. At March 2023, there were an estimated 43,000 vacancies in directly employed nursing, personal care and clinical care manager...

Australia is failing to implement effective, child rights-based approaches to reform child justice systems. This report investigates opportunities for reform based on evidence and the protection of human rights. It proposes an approach that addresses the social determinants of justice through upstream reform improving child health, learning and wellbeing.

This is the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission’s (the Commission’s) first report to Parliament on the progress of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032 (the National Plan). It finds that Governments have invested significant public funds to address domestic, family and sexual violence. Despite this, services and systems are...